French Ports

Date

7 January 1942

Target

French Ports

Force dispatched

27 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

68 airmen in this archive died on 7 January 1942 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Pilot Officer William Anderton (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class St. Clair Roderick James Andrews
• Sergeant Albert Sydney Austin
• Sergeant Sydney Robert Baker
• Leading Aircraftman George Bamford (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Barlass (21)
• Flying Officer Alan Rupert Baster (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert Birnie (24)
• Flying Officer Albert Edward James Bourner
• Sergeant Thomas Frederick Burn (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Peter Duncan Campbell (18)
• Pilot Officer Harry Edgar Charles Elliott (20)
• Sergeant William Wallace Forgan (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Fullbrook (21)
• Pilot Officer Jack Dewberry Gilliland (23)
• Sergeant Sidd Goldsmith (19)
• Leading Aircraftman William Edward Goodwin (25)
• Sergeant Myles David Gould
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Leslie Gregory (19)
• Sergeant Alan John Griffiths (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Merlin Thomas Harries (27)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Kenneth Hawkins (18)
• Leading Aircraftman Dorrien Clifford Henley (27)
• Flying Officer Bernard Peter Hickey (28)

See all 68 who died on 7 January →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →